When
the US House of Representatives passed President Barack Obama's stimulus
package on Wed., Jan. 28, 2009 it was an $819 billion boondoggle (on
top of another $800 billion taxpayer-funded bank-bailout on top of a
$15 billion auto industry bailout) that will become an $890 billion
bailout when the Senate version of the bill is enacted next week. In
the second stimulus package in as many months, there is about $400 billion
of actual money to stimulate the economy. The balance is pork. Not a
single House Republican voted in favor of the legislation. In a bipartisan
spirit, 11 Democrats crossed the aisle and voted against the Democratic
leadership. The vote was 247 ayes, 188 nays.

Here's
why. Sen. David Vitter [R-LA] revealed to the public on Jan. 29 that
the Obama people inserted a $5.2 billion "stimulus" in the
stimulus package that will reward the Association of Community Organizations
for Reform Now [ACORN] for flipping the traditionally Red States
that Obama needed to become the 44th President of the United States.
Nationwide, ACORN, using deliberately-created loopholes the Motor Voter
Law (enacted by the Democratically-controlled Congress in 1993 to help
Bill Clinton win reelection in 1996) that were tailored specifically
for this type of vote fraud). ACORN, using the vetting flaws in the
law, created from 9.5 to 15.2 million "new" voters who were
not legally eligible to cast those votes in the Election of 2008 because
many of them were illegal aliens or they simply didn't exist because
they were the result of multiple registrations by the same people. Since
1993, the far left has created over 20 million registered voters from
resident aliens, the Daly Dead (which, under Clinton, spread
from Chicago to every urban center in the nation), to minors under the
legal voting age, felons who could not legally vote, and illegal aliens.

For
those who claim the voters gave Barack Hussein Obama a "mandate"
to govern, let me say this: ACORN, which illegally employed known felons
as voter registration workers, gave Obama a mandate to rule, and Obama
is dutifully rewarding them. The media correctly reported that there
was an overwhelming numbers of new voters in 2008, resulting in an unprecedented
turnout at the polls. The media claimed most of the new voters
were young people—18- to 24-year olds—who had never before
voted.

In
the Election of 2008, 125,225,901 votes were cast for the primary party
candidates. Obama captured 66,882,230 votes in 2008 compared to the
59,028,109 votes taken by far left Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry
in 2004. We're looking at a difference of 7,854,121 new Democratic votes
(not necessarily new voters) that were tallied for Obama in 2008. The
media attributes the "phenomenal increase" in voter turnout
to ACORN's ability to motivate young people to come out and vote. Let's
see if that's true. CNN voter tabulations for 2004 and 2008 indicate
that 48% of the nation's 18 to 24 years turned out to vote in 2004.
In 2008, that number rose to 52%, or a difference of 4%. An increase?
Yes. A phenomenal increase? No. In 2004, 62,902,000 18 to 24-year old
votes were cast for Kerry. That translates to 2,516,098 increased 18-
to 24-year old votes for Obama. That leaves 6,022,461 other 25-plus
year old Acorn votes tallied in the Election of 2008. In Philadelphia
alone, 50,663 fraudulent ACORN registrations out of 57,435 rejected
registrations were given to the US Attorney. In August, 2008, 12 States
raises the red flag about rampant Motor Voter registration fraud from
Project Vote, Acorn's voter mobilization unit. Nothing was
done about the allegations.

The
Democrats know that ACORN was singularly responsible for their regaining
control of Congress in 2006 and securing a virtually veto-proof majority
in 2008 (which technically means the Republicans can't stop them from
doing whatever they want). Political pundits, looking at the known instances
of vote fraud, estimate that only 3 to 5 million, or 30% to 35% of the
registrations generated by ACORN and other civil rights community activists,
were actually legitimate. ACORN's voter advocacy in 2007-08 was accomplished
with about $5.8 million—with a "M." Imagine how much
damage to honest elections ACORN could generate with $5.2 billion—with
a "B." It's understandable why Obama and the far left wants
to endow ACORN. With a $5 billion "get-out-the-vote" nest
egg for the far left voter advocacy group that has shown it can magically
multiply the value of the ballots cast by the voters it registers through
the Motor Voter Law, ACORN will be able to manipulate the texture
of the vote in almost evenly Congressional district in the country,
virtually guaranteeing that conservatives will never again be able to
control Congress, and only with great difficulty, succeed in winning
the White House.

Obama
promised that he would redistribute the wealth of what he described
as the greedy white middle class in his book, "Dreams From
My Father." Obama Economic Advisor Robert Reich met with the
House Ways & Means Committee on Jan. 7, 2009 to detail
how the President-elect wanted the first phase of the redistribution
to take place. Only a President-elect who was extremely confident that
he would be reelected before he was even sworn in as President would
send his top Economic Advisor-designate to a public Congressional hearing
to shape the tone of stimulus legislation by openly advocating that
Congress stipulate that the job-stimulus money in the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act of 2009 contain language that would require
the States and the local communities to funnel the job-stimulus money
to black-owned companies which employ African-Americans and other unemployed
minorities, women—and long-term unemployed people who are not
qualified for the construction jobs that will be created under the Stimulus
Package.

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Two
days after the 111th Congress was installed, Reich sat before Ways &
Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel detailing Obama's views how
this should play out. "Infrastructure spending,"
he told Rangel, "will stimulate the economy..." and
that stimulus dollars should be spent on projects that will "...have
a high social return that also can be done with the greatest speed possible.
I am concerned, as I'm sure many of you are, that these jobs simply
not go to high-skilled people who are already professionals, or to white
male construction workers. I have nothing against white male construction
workers, I'm just saying there are other people who have needs as well...Criteria
can be set so that the money does go to others, the long-term unemployed,
minorities, women and people who are not necessarily construction workers
or high-skilled professionals."

Rangel
agreed that "...We're going to have to establish formulas where
governors are going to have to find some formula to find out how to
get the money where the hemorrhages are. At the end of the day we know
where the joblessness is, where the fears are, and we can get the federal
formulas to target the relief to those communities. We don't have to
worry about what the middle class is going to do. Things are so bad
they have to put food on the table [and] get clothes for their kids...I
think we can get rid of some of the fears by mandating the criteria
and formulas." Rangel felt that the white middle class workers
were so wrapped up in the fear of of losing their jobs, their homes
and their affluent way of life that they won't be paying attention to
the fine print in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009. Republican Congressmen are.

The
Democrats are in pig heaven. They've never seen a pork bill they didn't
fall in love with, and they've never passed up an opportunity to enlarge
government. It's not often they get both in the same bill...well...no...with
the Democrats having a 1933 FDR majority in both Houses, we can expect
that every piece of legislation coming out of Congress at least until
2010 will enlarge both the national debt and the size and scope of government.
If this nation does not prosecute ACORN for vote fraud, repeal the Motor
Voter Law and invalidate all registrations created under the bad law,
and force those registrants to refile and prove their eligibility to
vote, you will find the elections in Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and
communist China will be more honest than those in the United States.

One
of the provisions in the Senate version of this bill (originally introduced
as S.1315 Veterans' Benefits Enhancement Act of 2007) will
give $198 million in lump sum payments to aging Filipino veterans who
fought in World War II—to protect their homeland which was invaded
by the Japanese, and not a territory of the United States. How many
US veterans received military pensions after serving four years? None.
Nada. Zip. Zilch. Other than the handful of Filipinos who live here
and would spend that allotment here, the bulk of those who would be
recipients of this largess of the taxpayers of the United States, those
dollars would be spent to enhance the economy of the Philippines. The
measure was sponsored by Sen. Daniel Akaka [D-HI].

The
only "breathe of fresh air" measure in the legislation, already
being attacked by the liberal press, was inserted in the House version
of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by 13th
term Congressman Peter Visclosky [D-IN]. The Senate version was proffered
by Byron Dorgan [N-ND]. Dorgan's measure mandates that all construction
projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009 must use infrastructure materials, particularly steel, that
were made in the United States. The "Buy American" provision
came right out of the playbook of Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great
Depression. While FDR-student Obama privately eschews the Vischlosky-Dorgan
amendment, publicly "Buy American" has a vote-getting patriotic
ring to it.

The
Obama Administration will fight hard to sabotage that provision in the
Senate bill and, if necessary, to surreptitiously drop it out of the
bill in joint conference when the patriotic public is no longer watching
what they believe is "enacted law."

On
Jan. 30 Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs said he would "...review
that particular provision...[the president's advisers understand that]...all
of the concerns that have been heard, not only in this room, but in
newspapers produced both up north and down south." When asked
by the press corp, Gibbs refused to say what Obama will do if the provision
is still in the legislation when the bill hits his desk. I suspect the
Solicitor General of the United States will file a lawsuit with the
Supreme Court to remove it. After all, what could be worse in an American
stimulus package than a measure that would require US government contractors
to actually buy American products to stimulate the economy?

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The
"Buy American" provision is already being attacked by the
European Commission and the Canadian government. Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper is calling the measure a violation of NAFTA.
The EU insists that the Visclosky-Dorgan provision flies in the face
of a G-20 agreement reached in November, 2008. Thirteenth term Visclosky
and 3rd term Dorgan have too much influence with other House and Senate
members to be casually dismissed by the far left even though some of
the most vocal opponents of the Buy American provision are the nation's
biggest blue chip industrialists—and campaign contributors. Less
than two weeks into what Obama said would be the most open presidency
in history and the shell game has already begun.

Jon Christian Ryter is the pseudonym of a
former newspaper reporter with the Parkersburg, WV Sentinel. He authored
a syndicated newspaper column, Answers From The Bible, from the mid-1970s
until 1985. Answers From The Bible was read weekly in many suburban
markets in the United States.

Today, Jon is an advertising
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has helped him establish a network of mid-to senior-level Washington
insiders who now provide him with a steady stream of material for use
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his website.

For those who claim
the voters gave Barack Hussein Obama a "mandate" to govern,
let me say this: ACORN, which illegally employed known felons as voter
registration workers, gave Obama a mandate to rule, and Obama is dutifully
rewarding them.